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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago

Jamaica is functionally a captive state. The police and the legislature are fully captured by foreign corporate interests. The public is held in poverty to extract their labor on the cheap.

Emigration from Jamaica is currently at a critical high, with over half of the population (54%) planning an attempt to leave within the next three years.

The whole Caribbean is under the yoke of repressive governments operating perpetually contracting local economies to support the tourist sector. But as a British Commonwealth (functionally little more than a colony) they don't even enjoy a relationship to a prosperous mainland to backstop their atrocious domestic economic policy.